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From: Thomas Sachau <tommy@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in media-libs/freetype: freetype-2.4.11-r1.ebuild ChangeLog
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 21:12:34
Message-Id: 512E76B9.2050201@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in media-libs/freetype: freetype-2.4.11-r1.ebuild ChangeLog by Pacho Ramos
1 Pacho Ramos schrieb:
2 > El mié, 27-02-2013 a las 19:27 +0100, Alexis Ballier escribió:
3 > [...]
4 >>> The reason I bring this up again is that there was a strong argument
5 >>> yesterday in #gentoo-dev, so it seems the situation is NOT clear.
6 >>
7 >> What are these arguments ? The IRC conspiracy is hard to follow :)
8 >>
9 >
10 > I also read that argument... but it looked to turn more in a "personal"
11 > flame war than anything "technical". For example, I couldn't see how
12 > multilib-portage solves the issue of different headers provided for
13 > different arches (that looks to be the key problem that mgorny tried to
14 > solve in freetype)
15 >
16
17 multilib-portage has no issues with abi-specific headers, since those
18 are installed into a seperate abi-specific location inside /usr/include
19 with a wrapper in the original location to not break depending packages.
20
21 --
22
23 Thomas Sachau
24 Gentoo Linux Developer

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